Arts and Leisure Desk

Who would have thought that Tony Bennett, a 76-year-old Italian-American from Astoria, Queens, and K. D. Lang, a 41-year-old Canadian tomboy who made her name in country music, could find a vocal fit so perfect it seems made in heaven?

November 24, 2002artsNews

The Arts/Cultural Desk

A classic pop belter, Ms. Lang has the priceless vocal gift of being at once instantly recognizable while also fitting securely within a lachrymose tradition that embraces everyone from Judy Garland to Whitney Houston.

December 5, 2000artsReview

Home Desk

k.d. lang is the type of politically radical vegetarian lesbian defender of wildlife you'd want to bring home to mother. Wholesome, endearing, strident and polemical, she has a golden voice that could fill the Grand Canyon.

July 23, 1992gardenBiography

Cultural Desk

K.D. Lang comes on strong. She started her set Monday at the Bottom Line with a torchy ballad, leaning over the electric piano and emoting in throbbing, overwrought crescendoes that most country singers would save for peaks. Not Ms. Lang: she built from there.

August 2, 2006, Wednesday

THE very thought might have made Cole Porter and his delicate cosmopolitan sensibilities flinch, but the new movie about him, ''De-Lovely,'' is spiced by a pinch of New Jersey. Much of the film's piano and incidental music was recorded here by Gil...

It may come from the northern light, the emptiness of the land and the lurking Arctic chill, but a strain of musical introspection seems deeply engrained in Canadian pop. Think only of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, or of Neil Young longing for a...

June 21, 2004, Monday

MADISON AVENUE is offering a queer aye for the straight buy, increasingly using openly gay and lesbian celebrities in campaigns aimed not at the homosexual market but at the wider general audience. The advertisers involved include American...